chinese mung bean

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chinese mung bean - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Mung \Mung\ (m[u^]ng), n. [Hind. m[=u]ng.] (Bot.)
     Green gram, a kind of legume (pulse) (Vigna radiata syn.
     Phaseolus aureus, syn. Phaseolus Mungo), grown for food
     in British India; called also gram, mung bean, Chinese mung bean
     , and green-seeded mung bean. It is an erect,
     bushy annual producing edible green or yellow seeds, and
     edible pods and young sprouts. --Balfour (Cyc. of India).
     [1913 Webster]